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Boltzmann factor and Hawking radiation

General Physics 2018-10-18 v1

Abstract

Hawking radiation has thermal spectrum corresponding to the temperature TH=(8πM)1{T}_{H}={(8{\pi}M)}^{-1}, where MM is the mass (energy) of the black hole. Corrections to the Hawking radiation spectrum were discovered by Kraus and Wilczek (1995) and Parikh and Wilczek (2000). Here I show that these corrections follow directly from the basic principles of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. In essence, it is the Boltzmann factor that ought to be corrected; corrections to the Hawking (or any other) radiation spectrum then follow necessarily.

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@article{arxiv.1810.07520,
  title  = {Boltzmann factor and Hawking radiation},
  author = {Gregory Ryskin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.07520},
  year   = {2018}
}

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